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Flanders(Flandres)

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France · 2006
1h 31m
Director Bruno Dumont
Starring Adélaïde Leroux, Samuel Boidin, Henri Cretel, Jean-Marie Bruveart
Genre War, Drama, Romance

André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn him into a warrior. As the seasons go by, Barbe, alone and wasting away, waits for the soldiers to return. Will Demester’s boundless love for Barbe save him?

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Village Voice by

Flanders is, dontcha know, a state of mind, and Dumont is plain out of his.

50

Premiere by Aaron Hillis

As a fan, it's upsetting to admit that Dumont's ideas and insights have narrowed with this picture, his relaxed pacing now lethargic, his physically and mentally thick characters too familiar, and his ice-water shocks a bit predictable. It would seem self-parodic if it weren't so damn tragic.

88

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

With very little dialogue and lingering shots of the landscape -- always a very important visual trope in Dumont's deep-psyche explorations -- the film is nevertheless tighter and, clocking in at under 90 minutes, relatively brief.

60

Film Threat by Phil Hall

Bruno Dumont’s Flanders is something you don't see everyday: a decidedly non-sentimental love story.

67

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Once again, Dumont cycles through the pet themes of films like "L'Humanité" and "Twentynine Palms," but their repetition is beginning to seem like shtick.

88

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Unspeakable brutality ensues, including a rape, a castration and cold-blooded murder. Dumont never mentions Iraq, but the parallels are clear.

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